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27 thoughts on “Poem ‘Abstract’”

ugh…the ending made me swallow hard…isn’t it a shame that we don’t manage to divide the food that we have on this planet fair…?
It requires open eyes
a vision without frontiers… this is just so true.. and often we don’t have it..

David, this is a topic near and dear to my heart. Here they shoot sea lions (because they eat our salmon) and I could go on and on…. People think nothing of stepping on a spider, throwing trash into the sea…. We interfere with nature and its own wise ecology, while we overpopulate the planet and hog all the resources, and chop down the trees (they’re in the way of shopping malls)…. Thank you for this poem – it speaks volumes! (And now I’ll step carefully off my soapbox. 🙂 )

Oh we are not just messing with the wild life we have successfully messed up ours too..unequal distribution, where some have abundant and others dying of malnutrition…
what a powerful poem David..kudos for handling it so well.

Well said, David. We must accept that every choice we make regarding nature has consequences for the planet and ALL of its inhabitants. A question that has stayed with me ever since I read it: “When you throw something away, what does ‘away’ mean?”

“open eyes
a vision without frontiers
a heart of kindness, acceptance
of nature’s prevalence
not some token paradise
where we are an aberration”–WOW, so powerful and so very true! Thank you and bless you for this forthright poem today!

Thank you so much! Yes, there’s no getting away from it, if aliens are watching us, and they have sorted out their own rapacious natures (they must’ve done otherwise they wouldn’t still exist!), they would be looking at us as if we were a disease. Presumably, though, they would surely teach us how to co-exist with nature and not obliterate it.